• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

red; two-line blue initials at beginning of text; some letters coloured red within text. First letter of each line of verse tinted red with red brackets; two-line blue Lombardic initials with red penwork; six-line initial, eg. f. 8r, blue with

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Formata hand. Item 1: 'Cha mpe initials (gold on blue and purple with white tracery) ff. 1, 4, 93v, 126v, 128, 141' (Mynors and Thomson 1993, p. 69). Item 2: blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Late nineteenth-century binding. Parchment

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

and blue with white line decoration. Sprays of feathering grow from the three corners sporting green tinted oval lobes with pairs of gold balls and terminating in a gold elongated cone with spikes and a green tinted 'feather'. Two-line blue

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

initials with feathering ending in filled oval lobes and pairs of leaves terminating in a cone-like elongated flower. Bound in blue morocco by Kalthoeber. Unfoliated. 64 folios. A note on the end flyleaves, 'NB. Mr. Whittaker, Bookseller, Wirksworth, being commissioned

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

with crude penwork decoration and tinted green. Underlining in red. Three-line red Lombardic capitals. Red end-line decoration. Item 3: four-line blue initial G with red penwork flourishing and grotesque head protruding into left margin. Title in red scroll. Stanzas marked

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

1: paraphs and some letters tinted red. Item 2: red paraphs, brown ink. Item 3: text begins with a five-line blue initial with crude red penwork and infill; two-line red initials, red paraphs, running titles underlined in red. Item 5:

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

closed s in final position and long s elsewhere; Body height: 1.5 mm. Ff. 3r-29v: text begins with a four-line blue initial with red penwork flourishing. Latin lines in red. Ff. 30r-31v: three-line red Lombardic capital m begins text. All

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

See Ker for a description of the script (1976, pp. xv-xvi). Two/three-line capitals in red. One three-line capi tal in blue with red penwork on f. 349r. One five-line initial in red with brown penwork on f. 71r and a

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

hooked ascender to h ; hooked descender to h ; long s in medial position. Body height: 2 mm. Two-line blue Lombardic initials with red penwork flourishing. Some words in red. Single red stroke between various words. Underlining in red.